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Sounds like Abish, but that is a guess at best. I am not sure, but it seems 
to me unlikely that Sam knew German.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:06 PM
Subject: Help!


> From a friend:
>
> Got a call from a patron today looking for a story that he read about
> 20 years ago. However, he said the story was not a new one of that
> time, just that's when he
> read it. He cannot remember the title or author but gave this description.
>
> It's an essay or short story. It starts in English and progresses to
> tell how a language might be changed by substituting a letter or
> symbol for a letter we have
> in English. As the story goes on the author is subtly changing the
> letters to the symbols or new letters he has discussed so that by the
> end of the story you (the
> reader) are actually reading this "new" language that has morphed from
> English. He strongly thinks the "new" language is German or is similar
> to German. He also
> has a vague notion that it might have been written by Samuel Clemens
> but says that is very vague and could be totally wrong.
>
> At first I thought he was describing Ella Minnow Pea but as he went on
> I realized that story does not meet his description. Also, it wasn't
> written too long ago.
> Does anyone have any idea what he is talking about?
>


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